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Reflections on My knee replacement

Recently one of our sweetaffliction.com readers posted a comment on David Simmons’ knee replacement article. It seems our reader Greg did not have as positive an experience with his knee replacement as David Simmons did. Well unfortunately neither did I. We are not trying to persuade anyone needing a knee replacement not to get one [...]

support your local hemophilia chapter during economic hard times

Over the past year plus, I have had many conversations with our local chapter director regarding the surprising downturn in attendance at our chapter events. What makes this so confusing is that most of these events are 100% free of charge and have always been extremely well attended in years past. This decreasing attendance, to [...]

Maybe D-Will Needed A Shot of Clotting Factor!

My favorite basketball player is Deron Williams of the Utah Jazz. A couple of weeks ago Deron went down with a leg injury. Team officials described the injury as a “moderate right quad contusion with reflective swelling in the right knee” — in other words, a bruised thigh that also caused his knee to swell. Williams [...]